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Thank you :)

I’ve been busy all day starting on an animation project for a competition. It’s nothing superb or amazingly out there, but it’s okay. I’ll post a short clip up later. It’s basic ‘cut-out’ animation style so don’t be expecting the New Adventurers of Batman or anything!

I also finally got around to starting work on a short film idea that’s been languishing in the recesses of my mind. It involves a train, rain and jaffa cakes. Oh, and a HELL of a lot more than that! I don’t want to let all the creativity seep out though talking about it, but rather let all that goo spill out into GoogleDocs and thus product ££££.

My sister has been making me do gardening all day, too. Which sucked because it came slap bang in the middle of my animation sprint. Sorta lost the momentum again since…

I really need to sit down with a pen and paper and plan my “video podcast” out properly before i dare entertain it in reality.

Wait, i probably should have started this post with some sort of grounding in what I’m talking about but i trust it speaks for itself!

I’m going to get scope out some ideas/feedback/suggestions/desires of Ubuntu users and what they would like to sit down and waste 5mins of their lives watching before i go overly insane with a lead scribbled brain-super-storm. I find trying to organize my creativity this way to be wildly fruititious - if it doesn’t get out of hand!

Given the “vlog cast” (can i call it that without sounding like some venture capitalist yuppie?) will be based largely on the “style” of my blog, I’m keen to call it “The OMG! Ubuntu! Show!” and have a slightly early 90’s PBS station broadcast feel to it; y’know, like something from someone’s garage. I want to retain that home-made, fan, anyone-could-do-this quality to it without forsaking actual quality or content or pro-sumerism. (i sometimes forget i have a National Diploma in media production, but that’s here nor there).

Hmm… Still a little while off actually shooting it. Need to certainly find some talking heads for skype based interviews - complete with animated photos of their mouths all a-chattering during the interviews.

Actually, just to pop a log on the rails of that train of thought, i need to know what the potential audience want to see before i “design” it to much in my head. I don’t want to create something so zany and ‘off the wall’ that it’s considered a “wtf cast”!

Did i mention i made some Jelly yesterday? :D

In a year or so i’m sure this sentence will one uttered everywhere: “Remember how the internet used to be - when we decided what we wanted to look at?”.

Today BT have barred all of their mobile customers from accessing a long list of sites - including The Pirate Bay - in an effort to “protect children”.

So instead of you yourself deciding whether or not something is suitable for yourself, some middle manager in a cheap suit does. What happens when said middle manager gets a pay off from XX company to add YY company to the ‘black list’?

If you’re on BT mobile Broadband - do the right thing and tell them to fuck off. You’re getting ripped off anyway as 1GB for £15/m… have you never heard of 3?!